The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-05-12

two or three useless physical appa-
rati, and no anatomist or psychologist has
ever been able to tell what they are good
| for They are no doubt the oundation Of
the resurrection body, worth nothing to
US in this state, to be indispensably valu-
able in the next state.
| The Jewish rabbls had only hint Of
| this suggestion when they said that in the
human frame their was. a small bone
| which they said was to be the basis of the
resurrection body. Perhaps that may
| have been delusion. But this thing is
certain, the Christian scientists of our
| day have found out that there are two or
| three superduities of body that are some
thing gloriously suggestive of another
| state
| / called at my friends house one sum-
mer day. I found the yard all piled up
with the rubbish of carpenter and masons
work. The door was off. The plumbers
had torn up the floor. The roof was being
lifted in cupola. All the pictures were
| gone, and the paper-hangers were doing
their work. All the modern improve
ments were being introduced into that
| dwelling. There was not room in the
house fit to live in at that time, although
month before when l visited that house
every thing was so beautiful l could not
have suggested an Improvement My
friend had gone with his family to the
Holy Land, expecting to come back at the
end OF six months, when the building was
| to be done. And, o! what was his Joy
| when at the end of six months, he returned
and the old house was enlarged and i'm
proved and glorified.
That IS your body. 1t looks we'll now
all the rooms filled with health, and we
| could hardly make a suggestion. But
after awhile your soul will go on to the
Holy Land, and while you are gone the
old house of your tabernacle will be recon
| structed from cellar to attic, and every
nerve, muscle and bone and tissue and
artery must be hauled over and the old
structure will be FURNISHED and adorned
and raised and cupolaed and enlarged,
and all the improvements of Heaven in
troduced, and you will move into it on res
direction day.
Forwe know that ii our earthly house of this
tabernacle were dissolved, we have building
of God, a house not made with hands, eternal
in the heavens.
o, what day when body and soul meet
again! They are very fond of each other.
Did your body ever have pain and your
soul not pity ita or your body have Joy
and your soul not re-echo its or changing
the question, did your soul ever have any
trouble and your body not sympathize
with its growing wan and weak under the
depressing influence. Or did your soul
ever have gladness but your body cele-
brated it with kindled eye and cheek and
elastic slept Surely God never intended
two such good friends to be very long
separated.
And so when the worlds last Easter
morning shall come the soul will descend,
crying, "Where is my body?" and the
body will ascend, saying, "Where is my
soula" and the Lord of resurrection will
bring them together, and it will be a
perfect soul in a perfect body, intro
duced by a perfect Christ into perfect
Heaven.
Victoryl Do you wonder that to-day we
swathe this house with garlandsa Do you
wonder we celebrate it with the most con.
centrated voice of song that we can in
vite, and with the deftest fingers on organ
or cornet, and with the doxologies iii IT
beat these arches with the pillows OF
sound as the sea smites the basalt OF
Giants Causeway? Only the bad disap-
prove of the resurrection.
A cruel heather warrior heard Mr..
Moffat, the missionary, preach about the
, resurrection, and b, said to the mission.
airy:
"Will my father rise in the last daya"
''Yes," said the missionary.
"Will all the dead in battle riseP' saio
the cruel chieftain.
YES" said the missionary.
! eThen," said the warrior, ''let me heal
no more about the resurrection lay. There
can be no resurrection, there shall be no
resurrection. l have slain thousands in
i battle. Will they risel"
. All, there will be more to rise on that
I day than those want to see whose crimes
: have never been repented Of But for all
others who allowed Christ to be their par.
don, and their life, and their ressurrec
ton, it will be day of victory.
The thu1ders of the last day will be the
salvo that greets you into harbor. The
lightniugs will be only the torches of tri-
umphal procession marching down to
. escort you home. The burning worlds
flashing through immensely will be the
. rockets celebrating your coronation
g on thrones where you will reign
y forever and forever and forever
I. Where is deaths What have we to do with
8 deaths As your reunited body and soul
swing off from this planet on that last day
. you will see deep gashes all up and down
! the hills, deep gashes all through the val
leys, and they will be the emptied graves,
! they will be the abandoned sepulchres,
. with rough ground tossed on either side
r of them. and slabs will lie uneven on the
r rent hillocks, and there will be fallen
monuments and cenotaphs, and then, for
e the first time, you will appreciate the full
exhilarati on of the text:
d He will swallow up death in victory.
q Hail the Lord of earth and heaven!
r | Praise to Thee hy both he given.